Persian Tomato Sauce for Lamb
This is a delicious chunky style sauce that is perfect with lamb,but don’t stop there, use as a unique pizza sauce with sliced lamb or as a divine vegetarian dish with chickpeas.
Equipment
- 1 Frying pan
- 1 wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- 2 Tbsp Persian Rub
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- Zest of a lemon finely chopped
- 1 400 g tin whole peeled tomatoes
- 2 Tbsp chopped parsley
- 30 g butter
Instructions
- Fry onions and garlic slowly in butter until translucent.
- Add the Persian Rub fry for half a minute then stir in the tomato paste.
- Add the lemon zest and tomatoes and cook another five minutes.
- Break the tomatoes up with a wooden spoon, but keep the sauce chunky.
- Add half the parsley just before serving and use the remainder to garnish.
- Serve with roast lamb, rack of lamb or lamb fillets on couscous.